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How high should boys sing? : gender, authenticity and credibility in the young male voice /

A boy sings ... a beautiful thing' (www.boychoirs.org), but is it? What kinds of boy, singing what kinds of music and to whom? Martin Ashley presents a unique consideration of boys' singing that shows the high voice to be historically, culturally and physiologically more problematic even t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ashley, Martin, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The background
  • Singing as social control of boyhood
  • Physiology of the young male voice
  • Subjectivity and agency in the young male voice
  • Admiration of the boy
  • A child doing a man's work in a man's world
  • Angels in the market place
  • We can't sing like men, so we won't sing at all
  • Ambassadors and mediators
  • The future.